Joseph Lelyveld.
JOSEPH LELYVELD
GREAT SOUL: MAHATMA GANDHI AND HIS STRUGGLE WITH INDIA (2011)
Mahatma Gandhi (born 1869) was originally named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His followers conferred on him the honorific name Mahatma, meaning venerable. The son of a politician, Gandhi qualified studied law at the Inner Temple in London, and qualified as a barrister in 1891, at the age of 22. Returning to India, he found it difficult to build a career, and moved to South Africa, where he lived for 21 years.
At the age of 45, in 1915, he moved back to India and became politically active. In 1921 he was appointed as leader of the Indian National Congress. In that capacity he led the eventually successful non-violent campaign for Indian independence from British colonial rule.
Foreign Affairs journal wrote of Lelyveld’s book: ‘He weaves a dense fabric of social analysis, biographical detail, and psychological speculation; zooms out for context and in for anecdotes; shifts between past and present tenses; and scrambles the chronology to find patterns across time.’
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Joseph Lelyveld (1937 - 2024) was an Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and author. He worked for the New York Times for almost 40 yers from 1962. His roles there included foreign editor and managing editor. The son of a Reform Jewish Rabbi, Lelyveld took his BA degree in English and hisd MA in American History at Harvard Universty.
